Red Line memo From the Rogan Benz podcast notes
https://archive.ph/qpYkJ#selection-4457.31-4463.0
along with rest of notes
There was a brief time in 2019 when all the censorship efforts could have been stopped
Instead, they shifted the reason for censorship. It wasn’t about stopping Russian interference anymore. Now it was about protecting democracy from “domestic threats”
“Now this is really nasty because it basically transitions censorship from being a strictly military thing that we’re doing to stop Russia to being a total permeating apparatus over all civilian domestic affairs regardless of whether there’s a foreign threat.” – Mike Benz
When Zelensky became president, the US State Department presented him with a “red lines memo”
Over 70 US-funded NGOs signed the memo, warning Zelensky not to cross specific “red lines” or risk political instability
But political instability in the country caused by the US State Department is the reason Zelensky ultimately became president: “The 2014 coup in Ukraine was US and UK orchestrated political instability to have a January 6th style mob destabilize the government and literally run it out of the country, and they gave him red lines on every single aspect of what he could do as president.” – Mike Benz
“The National Endowment For Democracy is one of the most pernicious forces in the entirety of the censorship industry.” – Mike Benz
NED presents itself as an NGO but was created by the US government to carry out CIA-like operations without direct CIA involvement
The way to restore faith in the institution is to make it do its walk of shame, and then it can put its clothes back on and return: I’m not trying to take these institutions out. I’m not anti American empire, but the empire has to serve the homeland. And the fact is, it does have to go through this period of penitence, and I hope that the incoming administration understands the magnitude and severity of the need to do that because if they don’t, they’ll they’re gonna be caught flat-footed by something very nasty coming down the pipe.” – Mike Benz
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>>22130437, >>22130465, >>22130468, >>22130506 “red lines” President Zelenskyi can’t cross 2019